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Developing Countries: Maternity Services

International Development written question – answered at on 31 January 2011.

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Photo of Mike Weatherley Mike Weatherley Conservative, Hove

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent projects his Department has supported to improve the provision of maternal health services in the developing world.

Photo of Stephen O'Brien Stephen O'Brien The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development

Improving reproductive, maternal and newborn health is a key priority for the coalition Government. On 31 December 2010 the Department for International Development (DFID) launched 'Choices for women: planned pregnancies, safer births and healthy newborns'. This new framework for result sets out how the UK will double its efforts to improve reproductive, maternal and newborn health over the coming years, including saving 50,000 maternal lives and 250,000 newborns. Projects that will be supported in order to achieve this are currently being determined as part of the ongoing aid reviews, which will report in the coming months. Information on the new framework and all current maternal health projects is available on the DFID website.

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